How do I set Xfce as my gdm default?

Todd And Margo Chester toddandmargo at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 23:19:39 UTC 2011


On 12/18/2011 11:17 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2011, 11:10 -0800 schrieb Todd And Margo Chester:
>
>> When I next get to the server with this issue, I will
>> change PREFERRED to "/usr/bin/startxfce4" and see what
>> happens.   I will get back.
>
> Right, that should do the trick. This is explained in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE#Make_LXDE_the_default_Desktop
> and /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt.
>
> Unfortunately it only works with gdm 2.x, 3.0
> ignores /etc/sysconfig/desktop completely.
>
> Regards,
> Christoph


$ rpm -qa \*gdm\*
gdm-libs-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64
gdm-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64

Cool.  Thank you,
-T


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